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The role of a director is commonly associated with working in theatre, television, or film and involves instructing actors. I have been requested to share my insights on directing a scene from ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’. The selected scene, Act Three, Scene Two, lines 120-345, also known as the lovers quarrel, requires a director to…

This underlying theme is used to convey to readers the conflict of the young lovers that gives rise to anxiety as they are caught between protecting oneself from heartache, and risking confession of a true love. Heaney communicates his message through the use of poetic devices as his speaker contemplates whether to go through with…

John Steinbeck is the author of this text. His life dates from 1902 to 1968. He hails from Salinas, in a moderately well up family. His writing career dates from 1925. His first published work includes a series of humor filled stories about Monterey paisanos, widely known as ‘Tortilla Flat’. A close look at his…

The poem’s ‘The Laboratory’, ‘My Last Duchess’, written by Robert Browning, and the play by the late William Shakespeare ‘Macbeth’ are all gravitating to the subject of women, but in different lights. ‘The Laboratory’ is a tragic poem of a wounded heart belonging to a woman who’s converted her feeling into rage towards her husband…

Themes of power and manipulation are evident in George Rowel’s allegory Animal Farm, based on the Russian revolution with animals representing the major players in the debacle, as well as Lord of the Flies, by William Gilding where young children are stranded on a tropical island without any adults or authority figure. Both show how…

17 September – It is almost five years since Willy’s death but the pain and guilt still haven’t gone away. I still fell that I should have taken better care of him.24 September – Biff has given up looking for the job Willy always wanted him to do – an office job. He said that…

The Story of an Hour is a narrative of a adult female who, through the mistakenly reported decease of her hubby, experienced true freedom. Both tragic and dry, the narrative trades with the boundaries imposed on adult females by society in the 19th century. The writer Kate Chopin, like the character in her narrative, had…

The novel, Lord Of The Flies, has been adapted for film twice, once by Peter Brook and his 1963 film adaptation and in 1990 by Harry Hook. The two films are, although based on the same book, entirely different. The obvious differences are the time in which they filmed, but there are more differences that…

The play Macbeth depicts evil as a potent and ruinous force that inflicts harm upon both its adopters and their victims. Both the main character, Macbeth, and his wife Lady Macbeth are entangled in the clutches of this malevolence. Evil compels individuals to partake in unnatural and harmful deeds. Macbeth’s tragic flaw, his insatiable greed,…

Robert Browning sets the tone of “My Last Duchess” by utilizing three important poetic techniques, one of which is imagination. Browning uses the Duke’s soliloquy to chalk out out images in the reader’s head of the Duchess herself. and the sinister personality of the Duke. Browning besides uses another cardinal device which is enunciation to…